Ram Daphna, Whipple Christopher R, Jason Leonard A
Center for Community Research, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.
J Addict Prev Med. 2016;2(1). doi: 10.19104/japm.2016.106. Epub 2016 Jun 30.
Previous work on substance use suggests the influence of family dynamics on emotion regulation.
The present study examined the role of family in substance use recovery. It is of importance to examine whether conflict with various family members influences an individual's abstinence self-efficacy.
We examined individual abstinence self-efficacy scores and lifetime conflict with mother, father, and siblings in a sample of 200 women who had been justice involved.
We found that conflict with mother was the best predictor of abstinence self-efficacy compared to conflict with father and conflict with siblings. Individuals who indicated having conflict with mother over their lifetime had lower confidence that they could abstain from use in potentially emotionally triggering situations.
CONCLUSIONS/IMPORTANCE: These findings suggest that family dynamics, specifically lifetime conflict with mother, do play a role in an individual's confidence to regulate emotions in high-risk relapse situations without turning to substances. Limitations include using abstinence self-efficacy as a proxy for emotion regulation and not directly measuring emotion regulation. Examining family relationships may be especially important in the treatment of women in recovery from substance use.
先前关于物质使用的研究表明家庭动态对情绪调节有影响。
本研究探讨家庭在物质使用康复中的作用。考察与不同家庭成员的冲突是否会影响个体的戒酒自我效能感具有重要意义。
我们在一个有司法介入经历的200名女性样本中，考察了个体的戒酒自我效能感得分以及与母亲、父亲和兄弟姐妹的终生冲突情况。
我们发现，与父亲的冲突和与兄弟姐妹的冲突相比，与母亲的冲突是戒酒自我效能感的最佳预测因素。表示终生与母亲有冲突的个体，在潜在情绪触发情境下能够戒酒的信心较低。
结论/意义：这些发现表明，家庭动态，特别是与母亲的终生冲突，确实在个体在不借助物质的情况下调节高风险复发情境中情绪的信心方面发挥作用。局限性包括使用戒酒自我效能感作为情绪调节的替代指标，而没有直接测量情绪调节。在治疗物质使用康复中的女性时，考察家庭关系可能尤为重要。
